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Easy Digital Downloads Changelog

View releases and changelogs for EDD and addons.
All Access
Version 1.2.7 — October 23, 2024
  • Dev: new minimum requirements are PHP 7.4, WordPress 5.8, and Easy Digital Downloads 3.2.0.
  • Admin: All Access JavaScript handling in the admin has been updated to load only when needed.
  • Dates: Dates for All Access passes are now displayed in the store’s time zone and use the store’s preferred date and time formats.
  • Passes: In certain time zones, All Access passes could expire earlier than expected.
Commissions
Version 3.6.1 — October 3, 2024
  • Admin: Editing a commission could save the date incorrectly.
  • Database: Fixed a possible fatal error when retrieving commissions.
  • Reports: A commissions report could ignore a set date range and export all commissions.
Zapier
Version 1.4.0 — October 1, 2024
  • Compatibility: Important! New minimum requirements are PHP 7.4, WordPress 5.8, and Easy Digital Downloads 3.2.0.
  • Subscriptions: Renewal action now contains the updated subscription expiration date.
  • Subscriptions: Renewal action order data has been updated to be consistent with new order data.
  • Settings: Added link to add-on documentation in the Zapier settings page.
  • Orders: Currency information has been added to the action data.
  • Refunds: Creating a refund no longer sends a ‘new order’ action.
Multi Currency
Version 1.1.2 — October 1, 2024
  • Admin: Improves messaging around gateway and currency changes.
  • Stripe: Fixes an issue with the Legacy Card Elements payment request buttons.
Easy Digital Downloads Easy Digital Downloads (Pro)
Version 3.3.4 — September 19, 2024
  • NEW! Stripe: When connecting EDD to Stripe, the necessary webhooks are registered.
  • Cart: Enhanced cookie handling when emptying and re-adding items to cart.
  • Checkout: Resolved undefined variable issue when using block registration form.
  • Downloads: Improved response header handling to prevent invalid content-length headers.
  • Downloads: Resolved inconsistency in author availability for new vs existing downloads.
  • Emails: Improved email tag loading for more efficient processing.
  • Emails: Removed image insertion capability from password reset email editor.
  • Emails: Corrected filter name in new user email for proper functionality.
  • Emails: Fixed a fatal error in password reset due to missing parameters.
  • Emails: Fixed empty {password_link} email tag for first-time users.
  • File System: Consolidate filesystem interactions by normalizing file paths.
  • Orders: Improve order total calculations for orders with multiple adjustments.
  • Orders: Fixed an issue with resumed orders and date_created values.
  • Orders: Deleting an order now deletes the related transactions entry.
  • Orders: Implemented safeguard to prevent negative order totals.
  • Reports: Fixed PHP notices occurring in certain time zones.
  • Sessions: Added new filters for more flexible cookie management.
  • Sessions: Added built-in support for Pantheon cookie exclusions.
  • Sessions: Added built-in support for WP Engine cookie exclusions.
  • Stripe: Improve legacy card elements session compatibility.
  • Users: Added a tool to help fix corrupted capabilities that prevent access to EDD settings screens.

Free Downloads
Version 2.3.16 — August 20, 2024
  • Admin: The quick docs link on the Free Downloads settings screen links to the relevant docs.
  • Assets: For sites with manually created Free Downloads links outside of the content, there is now a setting to load the Free Downloads script on every page load.
Reviews
Version 2.2.5 — August 20, 2024
  • Integrations: updates the Frontend Submissions vendor feedback form and email handling.
  • Review Requests: adds back a missing period for the review requests.
Software Licensing
Version 3.8.14 — August 8, 2024
  • Compatibility: Fixed an issue causing a fatal error with EDD 2.x
  • Licenses: Improved detection of if a license could be extended.
  • Licenses: The retroactive license processor could create licenses for renewal orders.
Easy Digital Downloads Easy Digital Downloads (Pro)
Version 3.3.3 — August 6, 2024
  • Reports: Refund tiles for fully refunded items could include partial refunds.
  • Sessions: Improve session handling during checkout when logging in a user at the same time.
  • Admin: Fixed a display issue when searching for EDD items in list views.
  • Emails: Prevent a PHP error related to the Email Summary settings.
  • Emails: Improved the Email Summaries reliability.
  • Blocks: Fixed an issue on the Checkout block for existing customers without a last name.
  • Downloads: Improved the handling of the cart widget markup when adding an item to the cart.
  • Downloads: Improved the detection and handling of local files when they are downloaded.
  • Settings: Refactored the process of saving settings for consistency.
Recurring Payments
Version 2.12.5 — August 5, 2024
  • Downloads: Fixes an issue where deleting a customer email address could block access to a file download for a customer with an active subscription.
  • Emails: Registers an admin renewal notification email for when renewal orders are received (requires EDD 3.3.0).
  • Emails: Updates the email tag handling.
  • Integrations: Updates the Software Licensing integration for logging when a license key is renewed.
  • Orders: If a renewal order cannot be recorded, the subscription is not renewed.
  • Settings: Updates the settings screen checkbox inputs.
  • Dev: Dynamic properties are allowed on the EDD_Subscription class.
Wallet
Version 1.2.1 — July 29, 2024
  • Admin: Updates the wording around the admin deposit and withdrawal emails to be more clear.
  • Admin: Updates the settings screen checkboxes.
  • Emails: The customer deposit receipt email status can be edited.
  • Shortcodes: Fixes the deposit shortcode JavaScript handling for custom deposit amounts.
  • Shortcodes: Fixes missing CSS for customers who have the Wallet CSS disabled.
Software Licensing
Version 3.8.13 — July 25, 2024
  • API: Prevents a PHP notice when checking a license without a URL.
  • Changelogs: Fixes an issue which could break URLs in changelogs.
  • Checkout: Fixes a JavaScript error on checkout for stores which do not allow license renewals.
  • Database: Fixes an issue which could prevent querying for licenses by a specific cart index.
  • Emails: Fixes an issue which prevented scheduled renewal notices from sending.
  • Emails: Ensure that sent renewal notices are still logged to the license data.
  • Licenses: Improves license creation performance.
  • Samples: Fixes PHP warnings for plugins which do not set version requirements. The updater class is now at version 1.9.4.
  • Renewals: Fixes an issue which allowed renewal text and links to show for licenses which could not be renewed.
  • Widget: The changelog widget could cause PHP notices in PHP 8.0.
Easy Digital Downloads Easy Digital Downloads (Pro)
Version 3.3.2 — July 25, 2024
  • Checkout: Improved session handling with Stripe payments.
  • Settings: Improved pass validation that could cause deactivation on certain server configurations.
  • Admin: Improve responsiveness of EDD admin menus.
  • Sessions: Set default session handling to database on new installs.
  • i18n: Ensure that some block strings are able to be translated.
Message
Version 1.2.5 — July 24, 2024
  • Admin: Admin styles have been updated for a cleaner, more modern appearance.
  • Admin: The EDD quick links have been updated.
  • Admin: Messages were not showing on the customer screen in EDD 3.x.
  • Admin: Messages now display the time sent in the site/local timezone.
  • Compatibility: The plugin has been updated to be fully compatible with the latest Easy Digital Downloads versions.
  • Integrations: Fixes license renewal notice logging with Software Licensing.
  • Emails: Sending a message without an attachment would cause a deprecation notice in PHP 8.1.
  • Dev: The minimum version requirements are now PHP 7.4, WordPress 5.8, and Easy Digital Downloads 3.2.0.
Easy Digital Downloads Easy Digital Downloads (Pro)
Version 3.3.1 — July 17, 2024
  • Settings: Fixed a PHP warning related to a store’s region when managing settings.
  • Settings: Ensure that the selected currency option is a registered currency.
  • Orders: Fixed an issue resulting in searching for orders not always working.
  • Emails: Ensure that email subjects do not contain HTML tags.
  • Emails: The Admin Sale Notification wasn’t sending to multiple recipients.
  • Checkout: Improved checkout page detection compatibility for extensions.
  • Onboarding: Improved the onboarding wizard styles and content.
Custom Deliverables
Version 1.1.2.1 — July 12, 2024
  • Fix: Correct an issue that could result in a missing class error.
Easy Digital Downloads Easy Digital Downloads (Pro)
Version 3.3.0 — July 11, 2024
  • Important: This release requires WordPress 6.0 or higher.
  • Emails: NEW Managing emails is now easier than ever with the new Email Editor. All emails are now visible and managed from Downloads > Emails.
  • Emails: NEW You can now easily toggle the status of most emails to enable or disable them.
  • Emails: NEW Email tags have been improved to be more widely available to extensions and are now context aware by email type and recipient.
  • Emails: NEW You can now send an email to the customer when an order is marked as refunded.
  • Emails: NEW Added email tags for the refund amount and refund ID.
  • Emails: NEW You can now see a log of emails sent to customers by EDD in Downloads > Emails > Logs.
  • Emails: NEW Added a new email tag for the order fees.
  • Emails: NEW Added the ability to email store owners about the Stripe “Early Fraud Warning” webhook.
  • Emails: NEW You can now easily restore the default email templates from the editor.
  • Emails: More emails are now able to be previewed and tested.
  • Emails: Added the ability to edit the New User, Password Reset, and User Verification emails.
  • Emails: Email settings have been moved to Downloads > Emails > Settings.
  • Sessions: NEW The session handling has been rewritten from the ground up to be more reliable and improve performance.
  • Sessions: The session storage method can now be changed via a setting in Downloads > Settings > Misc.
  • Sessions: Added a custom database table for session storage, when using the database storage method.
  • Sessions: Improved the performance and reliability of the session cleanup Cron event.
  • Sessions: Improved session handling to only start when necessary, allowing more pages to be cached for guests.
  • Extensions: The Disable Purchase Receipts extension is now marked as legacy and will be deactivated, as the functionality is now built into EDD.
  • Extensions: The Auto Register extension is now marked as legacy and will be deactivated, as the functionality is now built into EDD.
  • Stripe: Improved the handling when a Stripe customer cannot be found.
  • Stripe: Added a disconnect button to the Stripe settings if the Stripe account that is connected has been closed.
  • Stripe: Improved and implemented fallbacks to reduce failures when processing Stripe payments.
  • PayPal: Improved the onboarding process for PayPal to avoid a possible fatal error.
  • HTML: The Product Dropdown element has been improved for reliability, search, and performance.
  • Migration: Improved the reliability of the EDD 3.0+ migration routine.
  • Reports: When the percentage difference was calculated, it was possible for a positive change to show as a negative percentage.
  • Cart: In some cases, the Add to Cart button was not redirecting logged-in users to the checkout page.
  • Checkout: Improved the handling of the purchase form when showing the login form.
  • Checkout: Improved the handling of the address fields when using the Stripe Payment Element.
  • Checkout: Improved purchase validation during the checkout process.
  • Exports: The Orders Export could sometimes use the product ID as the User ID.
  • WPCron: We’ve refactored how EDD uses WPCron to improve performance and reliability.
  • Customers: Improved the validation when removing email addresses from a customer.
  • Admin: Many of our ‘checkbox’ settings have been updated to use the new ‘toggle’ setting type.
  • Admin: Improved the consistency of the EDD Admin Pages.
  • i18n: Updated the list of regions for the UK.
  • i18n: Added Regions for Benin.
  • i18n: We reviewed, updated, and improved a large number of translations with translator comments and context.
  • Performance: Improved integration with the Heartbeat API to reduce the number of requests.
  • Refunds: Improved the reliability and performance of generating a refund number.
Free Downloads
Version 2.3.15 — July 10, 2024
  • Checkout: Logged in users could be redirected to an outdated confirmation page in error.
  • Checkout: Fixes an issue with free orders not having an email address set for logged in users.
  • Emails: Fixes the default email content for the verification email.
  • Scripts: Updates the script handling for variable products with a free option.
Commissions
Version 3.6.0 — July 9, 2024
  • Important: The minimum version requirements for Commissions are now PHP 7.4, WordPress 5.8, and Easy Digital Downloads 3.2.12.
  • Checkout: Commissions are now generated (and relevant emails sent) shortly after an order is placed, to speed up the user checkout experience (deferred actions).
  • Emails: Updated to integrate with EDD email handling.
  • Emails: A new email has been registered to allow stores to send one email per order to all users receiving commissions, rather than one email per commission. Requires EDD 3.3.0.
  • Emails: Email tags have been added to show users their total lifetime commissions and current pending/unpaid commissions.
  • Multi Currency: Commissions now support multiple currencies when recording and in reports.
  • Admin: Commissions are now displayed on the order details screen.
  • Admin: The commissions screens have been updated.
  • Admin: When manually creating a commission, store owners can choose to not send commission email notifications.
  • Admin: When creating a manual order, store owners can choose to not record commissions.
  • Admin: The EDD flyout menu links directly to the Commissions docs from Commissions screens.
  • Admin: The commissions list table has been updated for consistency with other EDD tables.
  • Exports: Generating a payouts file could trigger an error in the AJAX response.
  • Exports: Improved performance, management, and protection of export files generated by Commissions.
  • Exports: Generating a payouts export has been updated to be more efficient.
  • Orders: Notes are no longer recorded when a new commission is recorded (and instead all commissions are available in the Order Details).
  • Reports: The Export Commissions report was missing in EDD 3.x.
  • Shortcodes: The commissions graph shortcode has been updated to not conflict with default WordPress queries.
  • Dev: The custom database table registrations have been updated.
  • Dev: The commissions custom post type is no longer registered.
  • Dev: The “Instant Pay Commissions” setting has been removed and is no longer available for new PayPal Adaptive Payments users.
  • Dev: The eddc_add_commission function has been registered to allow users to add a single commission.
Free Downloads
Version 2.3.14 — June 27, 2024
  • Emails: Disabling the core EDD purchase confirmation could cause a fatal error after the order was completed, preventing the after order actions from running.
  • Download verification: if user verification is required, errors were not properly displayed on the Free Downloads form.
  • Settings: The extension settings have been updated for email management.
  • Dev: Asset handling has been improved by loading scripts and styles only when needed.
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